Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Finding Aid to the Data Center Poster Collection, circa 1965-circa 1998 (bulk 1975-1995)
BANC PIC 1999.087
View entire collection guide
Search this collection
Table of contents
Collection Title: Data Center poster collection
Date (inclusive): circa 1965-circa 1998
Date (bulk): 1975-1995
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1999.087
Collector:
Data Center (Oakland, Calif.)
Extent:
4 boxes and 24 oversize folders (circa 845 posters)
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English, Spanish, French
[Identification of item], Data Center poster collection, BANC PIC 1999.087, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog
Political posters
Latin America--Politics and government--20th century
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989
Posters
Received as part of the Data Center archive, which incudes the Data Center records (BANC MSS 99/329).
Received unsorted. Grouped by Bancroft Library staff according to size, then within each size category, items were rough-sorted
by topic or origin. If posters appeared to be a set, or were produced by one agency, they were kept together. Most posters
were grouped according to the nation or region to which they pertain. Each general grouping has been described (to the folder
level) in this finding aid. Note that any one topic or region may have multiple relevant entries in this finding aid, due
to the size divisions.
Biography/Organization History
The Data Center (Oakland, Calif.) was founded in 1977 as "an activist library and publication center, in affiliation with
the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)." As stated on the organization's website (2013), its mission "was to
address the political economy and the injustice of class inequities worldwide, and to provide actionable information to those
in frontline organizations engaged in those struggles for justice."
Scope and Content Note
Posters collected by the Data Center of Oakland, Calif., chiefly relating to the politics of Central America, but also including
South America, Cuba, Africa and apartheid, American (United States) politics of the 1970s to mid-1990s, American issues of
race and ethnicity, anti-war posters and handbills, community events, and alternative film promotions. Many items were produced
in the San Francisco Bay Area to promote local events, rallies, or commemorations. Some materials are by Latin American artists
and have various countries of origin.